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2025-02-17 Caribbean-Latin America
Trump's designation of cartels as terrorists ends the fiction that Mexico is a trustworthy ally
[FoxNews] Designating Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations is the first honest step Washington has taken on this issue in decades

On President Donald J. Trump’s first day in office, he issued an executive order designating human and drug trafficking cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).

This week, the other shoe is expected to drop, as the State Department under Secretary Marco Rubio names names, designating six Mexican cartels as FTOs.

Official Washington has long peddled the comfortable fiction that Mexico is an honest partner in the fight against drugs and human trafficking. This myth persists, despite decades of overwhelming evidence that the Mexican government is at best willfully negligent, and at worst, in active collusion with the criminal networks destroying lives on both sides of the border – cartels that Trump just called out by name.

Trump has put a forceful end to this lie. Trump’s action exposes the inconvenient truth: Mexico, first under former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his Morena Party and now with President Claudia Sheinbaum, is no peer ally. It is a state deeply compromised by cartel corruption and control.

While Washington elites fret over diplomacy and stability, tens of thousands of Americans are dying from fentanyl poisoning every year. This crisis is directly fueled by cartels operating with impunity in Mexico and with material, financial and intelligence support from China.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-17 08:21|| || Front Page|| [11215 views ]  Top
 File under: Narcos 

#1 What about the comfortable fiction that none of our own politicians have succumbed to plata o plomo?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-02-17 13:27||   2025-02-17 13:27|| Front Page Top

#2 The key to understanding Mexico is to realize that what we call the Mexican government is just largest of the cartels vying for influence and power.
Posted by SteveS 2025-02-17 19:26||   2025-02-17 19:26|| Front Page Top

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